15 fascinating facts about North Korea

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and senior Chinese Communist Party official Liu Yunshan at the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea.Reuters/KCNA KCNA
North Korea is back in the headlines amid rising geopolitical risk.

It's unclear what the Hermit Kingdom will do next, or how other countries might respond.

However, Business Insider put together some statistics and facts that lend perspective on the country.

Kim Jong Un ordered all male citizens to copy his haircut.

KCNA

"A source from Pyongyang" told South Korea's The Chosun Ilbo that authorities issued an order requiring men to keep their hair no longer than 2 centimeters and requiring women to keep their hair at a bob length.

The men were told to model their hairstyle on Kim Jong Un, whose haircut is known as "ambitious" in North Korea (and terrible everywhere else). Women were advised to copy his wife.